Humane Society International announced the launch of its #ScienceWithoutSuffering (#고통없는과학 in Korean) campaign to promote the advancement of non-animal safety science and health research in South Korea. Korean TV celebrity Sam Hammington and National Assembly Member Ms. Okju Song and Ms. Jeongae Han joined HSI to support the launch of this campaign.

Humane Society International’s research and toxicology team joined more than 500 Chinese and international scientists at the 2nd International Conference on Toxicity Testing and Translational Toxicology to discuss advancements in 21st century alternatives to animal testing.

Humane Society International is praising a significant move by Chinese authorities away from an almost exclusively animal testing paradigm for cosmetics. The National Institutes for Food and Drug Control released a proposal for a new in vitro test standard for cosmetic ingredients as part of China’s ongoing efforts to align its regulatory frameworks with those of key international trading partners, providing technology supporting future trade in cosmetics, and further developing Chinese programs and infrastructures for non-animal test method development and validation.

Humane Society International signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Guangzhou CHN-ALT Biotech Co. Ltd. to collaborate on a number of educational projects focused on cosmetic safety testing to promote modern, non-animal techniques in China.

HSI urged South Korea to actively seek the strategy and budget for non-animal science in light of statistics documenting a stunning 36.7 percent increase in animal use between 2012 and 2015 for an unprecedented total of 2,507,000 animals used in testing.

Tomo Editorial and HSI launched Animal Experimentation: An Obstacle to Scientific Progress, a book providing an in-depth analysis of animal use in research from a scientific and historical perspective. The book is part of a growing movement among the Brazilian and international scientific community questioning the effectiveness of animals as models of human biology and disease.

More than 500 scientists of toxicology, environmental sciences, pharmacology and cosmetics from around the globe recently gathered in Xi’an, China to discuss advancements in 21st century alternatives to animal testing in toxicology.

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